Mulvaney: Agency relocations will 'drain the swamp'

摘要

White House Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney appears to have disclosed a key motivation behind recent proposals to move hundreds of Agriculture Department and Bureau of Land Management jobs out of Washington, D.C.: to "drain the swamp" by reducing the federal workforce. That's according to a speech Mulvaney gave Friday in South Carolina to the state's Republican Party, during which he complained, "It's really, really hard to drain the swamp, but we're working at it." During the speech, broadcast by C-SPAN, Mulvaney specifically referenced the Agriculture Department's announcement in June that it planned to move the Economic Research Service (ERS) and the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) out of the "liberal haven" of Washington, D.C., to the Kansas City area (Greenwire, June 13).